"He also informed me that he had caught Satan and had him in a bottle in his book bag."

Sure. Where else would you put him?

Whatever issues Leseueur might, he was still arrested and booked into the Clarke County Jail on a theft by shoplifting charge.

Wonder if they dumped Satan down the drain.

While he has no criminal record noted in Clarke County Superior Court, Leseueur served prison time for convictions in other Georgia counties and has been arrested in at least one other state.

Might want to check with the state psychiatric facility...

Central State Prison released Leseueur just five months ago, after he served nearly two years for an aggravated stalking conviction in Taliaferro County.

That was a special mission too...

Leseueur entered the state prison system twice before in 1995 and 1999, both times for convictions in McDuffie County on theft, burglary and other charges, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. He was arrested for burglary in Tennessee in 2004, and a year later was booked into the Dekalb County Jail as a fugitive.

He was booked into the local jail Sunday and listed has having a Snapfinger Drive address in Athens.

Please use the link doohickicky instead of just pasting the URL naked like that -- long links break the 'burg. Type a word or phrase to hold the link, highlight, then click on the little icon that looks like a globe wearing eyeglasses... or two links of a chain, and paste the URL into the box that pops up.

[An Nahar] Russia's defense minister expressed horror on Monday that soldiers were still wrapping cloths around their feet instead of wearing socks, and vowed the historic practice must end this year.

"I would like to give an order that in 2013, at least by the end of the year, we forget the word 'foot cloths'," a grim-faced Sergei Shoigu told military top brass at a televised meeting.

"I ask for extra funds to be issued if necessary so that we completely give up this concept in the armed forces."

Russia's military leaders have repeatedly vowed to ban the practice, dating back a hundred years, as part of an attempt to modernise the sprawling armed forces.

Soldiers wind pieces of cloth around their feet, which some say is more practical for use with tall boots, but the practice is seen as shamefully old-fashioned.

The Russian armed forces modernized its uniform in 2008 with help from top fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin, including cotton socks.

"This is 2013. We are still talking about foot cloths," Shoigu said, adding that he had seen the practice while visiting units in recent months.

"Listen, I am amazed at such an attitude to our troops. Find the level of demand and solve this task," the former emergencies minister ordered brusquely.

Foot cloths and tall boots were taken off the list of essential elements of uniform for the armed forces in 2007 but their use continued and was never banned, a source in the defense ministry told the state RIA Novosti news agency.

Soldiers still wear tall boots for some tasks and foot cloths are more suitable than socks, the source admitted.

"It's very uncomfortable wearing socks with tall boots. The feet quickly get rubbed raw and socks wear out instantly."

Shoigu was appointed defense minister by President Vladimir Putin in November last year after the sacking of his predecessor Anatoly Serdyukov, who is currently being questioned as a witness in a vast corruption scandal.

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Use of cotton socks in cold weather is utterly ridiculous.
In other news, Russian soldiers have been ordered to use belts to hold up their pants instead of ropes and rags currently being used. The order has been put on hold pending issuance of belts to the troops.

Mr Monti, who is contesting the election as the leader of a centrist coalition, likened the 76-year-old billionaire to "a pied piper who leads the mice to drown in the river".

He said Mr Berlusconi had "already fooled Italians three times," a reference to his three terms as prime minister  the last of which came to an end in Nov 2011 when he was forced to resign amid sex scandals and concerns over the mismanagement of Italy's large public debt.

Mr Monti's remarks, made on a television current affairs programme on Monday night, marked his most trenchant criticism to date of his predecessor and intensified the antagonism between the two protagonists just weeks ahead of the Feb 24-25 election.

"The sacrifices Italians have made in the last year could be squandered in three or four months if an old, reinvigorated illusionist comes to power," Mr Monti told the programme, Porta a Porta.

He said that he had believed in Mr Berlusconi when he first entered politics in the early 1990s, promising to bring Thatcherite reforms to Italy's sclerotic economy, but said that like millions of Italians he had become disillusioned after the media mogul broke so many promises.

[ABC.NET.AU] Italia's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi...former Italian prime minister, known for his plain (for a European politician) speaking and his liking for hookers a third his age or less... has lost a bid to adjourn his trial for underage sex until after upcoming elections.

Berlusconi wanted the trial pushed back until after next month's election, in which he is running for office.

The billionaire tycoon is charged with paying for sex with Karima El-Mahroug in 2010 at his mansion near Milan, when she was just 17 and he was the prime minister.

They both deny ever having sex.

Berlusconi's lawyer told the court he will be too busy campaigning to follow the case or attend court, and that he fears his trial could influence the election.

But the court has ruled the trial must go ahead.

Moroccan-born Ms El-Mahroug, who used the working name "Ruby the Heart Stealer", arrived at the trial overnight to testify.

But Berlusconi's lawyers now say they will not be calling her as a witness.

Judges said her written testimony, where she described wild "Bunga Bunga" parties hosted by Berlusconi, will still be considered in the case.

So why did the director of the critically acclaimed film -- it earned an impressive 92 percent rating on film critics aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes -- get left out at the Academy Awards?

Some say it is because Bigelow incorporated controversial scenes of enhanced interrogation. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) member David Clennon, an actor best known for his portrayal of Miles Drentel in the ABC series "thirtysomething," a role he reprised on "Once and Again," wrote an op-ed on the Truth-Out.org website announcing his intention not to vote for the film in any Academy Awards category.

"Everyone who contributes skill and energy to a motion picture -- including actors -- shares responsibility for the impressions the picture makes and the ideas it expresses," he said. "There's plenty of 'Oscar buzz' around 'Zero Dark Thirty.' Several associations of film critics have awarded it their highest honors. I have watched the film (2 hours, 37 minutes). Torture is an appalling crime under any circumstances. 'Zero' never acknowledges that torture is immoral and criminal."When is the last time Quintin Tarantino or any other Hollywood puck acknowledged gratuitous killing was immoral and criminal?That's different, different you see: that's just about separating people from their money. Entirely different, no doubt about it...

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in the Rental Power Projects (RPP) scam, a major blow to the government and the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).

A three-member bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry ordered the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to arrest 16 accused including the PM within 24 hours and submit a report tomorrow. The Supreme Court had earlier ordered to the NAB to assign criminal liability in the case.

PM Ashraf, three ex-Cabinet ministers and four former secretaries of government departments have been accused in the case.

Ashraf is facing accusations of taking bribes in 2008 when he served as the federal minister for water and power. The prime minister also came to be known as 'Raja Rental' after he was accused in the case. He is facing allegations of buying property in London from wealth amassed through involvement in various scams as well.

(I was Navy in the Atlantic at the time, a Bitter and unrewarding place, on a Old WW2 frighter (Amphion, Arcturus) going From Norfolk to re-supply the med Fleet, at 6 mph both ways, talk about Crawling, and they Damn sure made sure you didn't go faster.

I remember watches in the Engine Room, Staring at a guage for RPM's and "Dont you dare let it go slower, or faster", 4 hours at a time, My Dad wondered "Why Don't you go Carreer", Never was so glad to see the end of Norfolk.

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I crossed the Atlantic multiple times at 10Kts in the mid 90's. Blew my mind that we took as long or longer than sailing ships of yore.

I couldn't stand 'BoxOps' - staying in a 10nmx10nm box for several weeks while doing workups and training. We used to have contests on the bridge to see who could hold the ship steady for a whole watch in one spot by pointing into the current and wind. The Quartermasters loved it - only had to plot one dot!

#7
The most fascinating picture is near the bottom, of an undocumented crash site they found an f-4 engine. The whole thing is just magnificent and even to a youngling like me, emotional. Too many we left behind. Too many.

On a side note, Military Collectors and Restorers should be hitching a ride over there for recovery of that stuff. Could probably buy dirt cheap.

#9
In 1944 they let 'em go as fast as they could without falling apart - even if some fell apart in the process. After VE Day his ship was diverted to the Pacific and he ended the war on the Atlantic (West - look at a map) side of the Panama Canal, because the ship wasn't considered seaworthy for the canal. Probably reasonable - that ship was a diesel, and some part of the engine was fractured and literally held together with baling wire, or at least some kind of wire and tensioner.

A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

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